What project MD11 buys
The Missile Defense System Radars project includes developing future Forward-based Mode Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control-2 (AN/TPY-2), United States Space Force (USSF) COBRA DANE, Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), Sea Based X-Band Radar (SBX), Persistent Discrimination Radar in southern United State (U.S.), and USSF Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) System capabilities through system engineering, software development, and testing support. Modeling and Simulation (M&S) efforts include enhanced sensor models, development of Radio Frequency scene generators, integration of simulations into the Missile Defense System M&S architecture, and Verification, Validation, and Certification of radar models. This project also funds participation and support for Missile Defense System ground and flight test campaigns and Warfighter games and exercises. This project provides the development of discrimination advanced algorithms for Missile Defense System radars to counter evolving threats. The discrimination improvement effort will develop and field integrated element capabilities to improve the Missile Defense System's ability to identify lethal and non-lethal objects. This project will continue the development of discrimination improvement midterm design and test support for Missile Defense System radars and far-term trade analysis and planning. The funds requested in this PE provide both legacy and Global Missile Defense Capability development for the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and partners. The capabilities funded by this budget request are complementary to the architecture funded by the Golden Dome Program's separate budget request and together fulfill the President's Executive Order 14186. The President's January 27, 2025, Executive Order established a goal of protecting the U.S. citizens, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and securing second-strike capability against missile attack from any adversary. This program and budget in addition to the budget requested by the Golden Dome Program Office reflects the changes necessary to protect the U.S. against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and other advanced missile threats.
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Project MD11 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 200.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 141.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 808.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 848.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 672.7 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 491.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 670.9 |
6 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue development, integration, and test of Arbitrary Waveform and advanced signal processing capability for the AN/TPY-2 CX 7.0 baseline. - Initiate a rapid prototyping project for a minimum of two approaches to examine, develop, and implement innovative technologies for search, track, and discrimination of threats and electronic…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Initiate development of high-fidelity Digital Wrapped Tactical Code models for AN/TPY-2 and SBX to support Missile Defense System element development and Warfighter Exercises and Training. - Procure updated hardware for high fidelity Hardware in the Loop models to meet increased performance required for advanced capabilities in SBX and…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides additional midcourse radar engineering services and information technology (IT) services, including IT software, end user support services, and cloud computing to ensure continued program operations. Additionally, PE 0603881C funding transferred to PE 0603884C as a result of THAAD weapons system transfer to the U. S. Army.
FY2027 planned work - Initiate hardware and software upgrades for forward-based mode AN/TPY-2 radar electronic protection and discrimination capability improvements.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for the initiation of hardware and software upgrades for forward-based mode AN/TPY-2 radar EP and discrimination capability improvements that provide a foundation for future Missile Defense System architecture improvements.
FY2026 plans — current year - No funding is requested in FY 2026.
FY2027 planned work - Complete development, testing, and software trouble report resolution CX 7.0 software.
FY2026 to FY2027 change - Increase provides funding to complete development, testing, and software trouble report resolution.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue development, testing, and software trouble report resolution CX 7.0 software.
FY2027 planned work - Award AOC development contract and initiate development of new threat object classification algorithms. - Begin software integration activities with Space Systems Command to enable seamless transition of AOC software updates into the UEWR Mission Application Software.
FY2026 to FY2027 change - Increase from FY2026 to FY2027 provides for award of development contract and initial software integration activities.
FY2026 plans — current year - No funding is requested in FY 2026.
Named performers on project MD11
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.